SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 14 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 7 of 100

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Which of the following statements best captures the essence of the book Because Words Matter?

(a)Language’s role in social justice
(b)Ancient Sanskrit grammar
(c)Novel on colonial India
(d)Linguist’s critique of post-colonial English

Answer

Why

Correct — A. ...Because Words Matter: Selected Quotes (Rupa, 2017) collects the words of Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi, who has campaigned for decades against child labour.

Its blurb says those words are not confined to the cause of children but carry "the voice of freedom, anger, compassion and humanity", and that words can provoke, inspire and transform. Words in service of justice: option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Ancient Sanskrit grammar — Sanskrit grammar is the field of Panini's Ashtadhyayi. Satyarthi's book gathers a child-rights campaigner's quotes, not a grammarian's rules.
(c)
Novel on colonial India — The book is a collection of selected quotes, not a novel, and its subject is Satyarthi's own campaign against child labour, not colonial India.
(d)
Linguist’s critique of post-colonial English — Satyarthi is an activist, not a linguist, and the book does not critique English. Its concern is what words can do for children and for justice.

Concept

Kailash Satyarthi shared the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Malala Yousafzai "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".

In 1980 he gave up a career as an electrical engineer and founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement). He also set up GoodWeave International, formerly Rugmark, which certifies rugs made without child labour.

The stem names no author. Open Library and Goodreads both list Satyarthi's book under this title, and this card reads the question as being about it.

Key facts

...Because Words Matter: Selected Quotes is by Kailash Satyarthi, published by Rupa in 2017.
Satyarthi shared the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Malala Yousafzai.
Satyarthi founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement) in 1980.

Study next

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Common traps

Treating 'words' in the title as a clue to grammar or linguistics, when the book collects a campaigner's quotes.
Assuming a book in the news is fiction, when this one is non-fiction.

Here a book is identified by its subject rather than its author. Books are asked by author at 11 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.24, which asks who wrote Fearless Governance (keyed Kiran Bedi).

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